The picture on the left is of an iPhone 4 battery performance at the 81% battery mark, while the one on the right is of an iPhone 3GS at the 82% mark.

Before I go into my little talk on why I’m standing in line on the 15th to pre order, I just wanted to say that I’m typing this whole post from my iPad.

Maybe I should talk a little about WWDC before I talk about the main announcement as well. I’ve been following WWDC for years now and I’ll be honest this was the first one where the excitement just wasn’t the same (thanks Gizmodo). Sadly the only announcement that happened today was the iPhone 4, and nothing more. I was hoping for iTunes.com to take a peek, or some updates on MobileMe and iWork.com but neither made headway. I wasn’t expecting MobileMe to go free, like some Apple blogs insisted was going to happen, as Apple is emailing me on a weekly basis to renew my subscription for $69. They wouldn’t email if it was going free. Anyways the lack of updates in Apples online world left me a little underwhelmed, but maybe that’s for another event.

Now to the iPhone 4. It’s really something special. Gizmodo showed it to us more than a month ago, but they clearly couldn’t do justice, since Jobs still has plenty to announce today (thankfully).

Where to begin. The design maybe? It’s just gorgeous. I don’t think anyone else could pull the metal look like Apple has been doing with there entire lineup of products. The whole product radiates with much more class and a look of luxury that Apple aims for in it’s products. But its not just the looks… The structure of the phone with un-Apple seams houses the frickin antennas of the phone. I’m an engineer so take it from me… That’s amazing work. The phone has a faster processor, 40% better battery life, yet ends up being skinnier in the process. How about that. I remember a year ago when the 3GS came out and made improvements to the 3G, only to end up being slightly thicker, and heavier. This time Apple got the design right all around, and I can’t wait to see the copycatters, or as Apple would say “X starts your copiers”, where X is any company of your choice.

Moving onto the software (where all the magic in every Apple product lies), Apple’s made some great improvements, all of which where mostly announced on April 8th at the iPhone OS 4 event. Not sure if it’s worth going over everything, but things like multitasking, and app organization are all FINALLY here. In addition, Jobs showed of two of the biggest pieces today, iMovie and FaceTime. FaceTime looks perfect. It easily looks like it could beat Qik, Fring or any other video chatting app on mobile devices. It’s like iChat on computers. Better than Oovoo, Skype, and sites like TokBox pending you can pull off the bandwidth, which explains why the feature I’d WiFi only at the moment. The other feature is HD Video recording. I know I know… Many phones have been doing this for a really long time, and the iPhone isn’t the first so what’s the big deal? Have you seen iMovie for iPhone? That’s the difference. Full on video editing and publishing, unlike anything before on mobile devices, from the company that makes some of the finest film editing applications on this planet (so good Hollywood uses it).

The last thing I want to say is something I’ve said for awhile and people have bashed me, or aid how could you think like that. That is, Apple had become a full-on mobile company that is investing more of it’s time and money in the newly-coined iOS than on the Mac OS X of yesterday. While we all imagine Mac OS X to be powerful, and oh do wonderful, it’s very bulky and inefficient. It’s codebase goes back almost two decades now, and Apple isn’t liking that very much. That’s why the iOS is Apples take on a modern OS, that is light, sleek, and controlled by Cupertino.

I’ll be in line June 15th to pre order, and as my friend asked “1 iPad is sold every 3 seconds. Wonder how iPhone 4 will do”? Real well. Keep your eye on it, and the stock. Let the good times roll.

-Rahul

P.S. Insightful debate is always welcome, so go ahead and comment and we can get something going if you’d like.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/04/02/why-not-to-buy-an-ipad-ph_n_523619.html#s78236

Rahul Krishnakumar
if people weren't buying them
Rohan Punamia
eventually the hype will vanish
Rahul Krishnakumar
If you want the iPad, you'll have to shell out anywhere from $499 to $829–in other words, it's more expensive than many netbooks, which offer full web browsing, multitasking, and more.

Rohan Punamia
and they will lwoer prices

6/2/10Rohan Punamia
exactly
12:00 AMRahul Krishnakumar
Are you kidding me?!
that doesn't say anything about price going down
Rohan Punamia
when they enable all these competing features, camera, multi tasking, hd screen limited flash, they have to lower price to compete with netbooks
Rahul Krishnakumar
that just says its not worth buying in comparison to a shit feature
netbook
Rohan Punamia
"Many predict that Apple's second-generation iPad is http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/36099232/ns/technology_and_science-tech_and_gadgets?pg=8#Tech_NotBuyiPad – 'sure to be better, cheaper, faster.' There's even been http://theappleblog.com/2010/02/02/rumor-has-it-the-ipad-camera/ – speculation that the next iPad will include a camera."
12:01 AMRahul Krishnakumar
dude I don't know what planet you live on…
Rohan Punamia
that planet
Rahul Krishnakumar
Flash on the iPad/
are you serialz?
Rohan Punamia
by limited
Rahul Krishnakumar
I can see camera
Rohan Punamia
i mean hulu
Rahul Krishnakumar
I can see multitasking
Rohan Punamia
espn
and things like that
Rahul Krishnakumar
I can see a better screen
but Flash
Rohan Punamia
populat flash uses
not REAL flash tho
which is uneccesary
just popular apps
12:02 AM
and this is the first product of this nature from apple
Rahul Krishnakumar

http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/01/steve-jobs-live-from-d8/

Rohan Punamia
as soon as number 2 is released, there will be a lil less hype and they will lower prices.
Rahul Krishnakumar
I'm going to publish this whole conversation on my blog
for lulz
just to see where it is a year from now
12:03 AMRohan Punamia
be my guest….lol
Mark my words
Ipad 2nd gen WILL be cheaper
Rahul Krishnakumar
6:33PM Walt: And what… we'll move on to the next thing you don't want to talk about. What if the market says 'hey it's important enough to us…' there's some great stuff out there in Flash. What if the market says it wants it? What if people say the iPad is crippled?

6:34PM Steve: Well things are packages. Some things are good in a product, some things are bad. If the market tells us we're making bad choices, we'll make changes. We're just trying to make great products. We don't think this is great and we're going to leave it out. We're going to take the heat because we want to make the best product in the world for customers!

I can't guarantee that, but I can guarantee you're Flash bullshit won't be there. Adobe first made something called Flash Lite and Jobs HATED it
12:04 AM
and he hates full blown Flash on mobile devices
if you don't make him what he wants, he's not going to do it, and seeing as Adobe has stopped working on Flash for iPhone and focusing on Android, good luck with your logic.
7:12PM Walt: So you made iWork for the iPad. Do you see things that the iPad can't do?

Steve: Well, you can imagine all sorts of things for the iPad. Video editing, content creation…

Walt: Does it require a faster processor?

Steve: Well time has a way of working these things out.

12:05 AMRohan Punamia
my logic is that the majority of VERY POPULAR flash based websites are working on an app for iphone
Rahul Krishnakumar
if the Camera coming wasn't obvious enough before here it is now
Rohan Punamia
so that is what i mean by "limited flash"
12:06 AMRahul Krishnakumar
and they're not working because of Flash, that's where you sound stupid
they're working because of re-encoding the video to h.264
or else Apple's not budging
Rohan Punamia
bottum line: eventually hulu will be on the app store soon, and following it will be other famous flash based websites
12:07 AMRahul Krishnakumar
that makes sense, and even a 12 year old could tell you that…
12:08 AM
that's not the same as Flash coming to the iDevices…
Rohan Punamia
well hulu is a big chunk of the "flash" argument
12:09 AMRahul Krishnakumar
if Hulu comes to the iPad, its not coming in Flash.
12:10 AM
thus Flash loses another customer, something they're already crying about
Rohan Punamia
but it will replace flash
Rahul Krishnakumar
once again… no shit
Rohan Punamia
my point
idc about flash
12:11 AM
i care about what is currently using flash to somehow get on the idevices, even if that means reformatting
Rahul Krishnakumar
Dude, I know what you're saying. Just don't sound like a tool when you say it.
people will just laugh at your for saying Hulu on the iDevices means Flash has come
its re-encoding to h.264
12:12 AM
I'm helping you understand that no one cares about the formats except execs at each company
for people it has always been about getting their content whenever and wherever
12:13 AMRohan Punamia
i knwo that
You misinterperated what i said
ight i g2g
finish this talk l8ter
Rahul Krishnakumar
you said shit wrong
I'd love a Part 2 to post to the blog
Rohan Punamia
good
you will get one soon
Rahul Krishnakumar
lates
Rohan Punamia
c ya

Insightful post into the power Apple holds:

http://stevecheney.posterous.com/apple-and-controlling-the-platform

Brilliant Move:

http://blog.scribd.com/2010/05/06/the-future-of-reading-is-open/

Ouch:

http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/industry_sectors/technology/article7118570.ece

Actually, after today, I would pit Microsoft as having the phone OS that I would most like to use followed by Android, and then by Android. I love the iPhone, it’s design, the visuals, you name it I love it, but recently I’ve been finding myself wanting more from the device. And this more can’t be found in the 150,000+ Applications. I find myself looking for an OS that is easy to navigate and organized, and is going to reduce my number of taps. The iPhone no longer does this. Having nine or more pages of sixteen apps was appealing in 2007, but now it’s boring, dull, and inefficient. Even the Android’s method of navigation is by pulling up a bar is dull when you come to think of it.

This is where Windows Phone 7 Series (man that’s a terrible name), and the Palm Pre truly accelerate. Rather than developing a mere SDK, and allowing for thousands upon thousands to be created and sold, what Palm, and now Microsoft are doing is opening up API’s and allowing developers to build upon the bare basic applications created. Take for example the social networking giant facebook. When they begin developing for Window Phone 7 Series, they don’t need to make a whole new application. Rather they can build on the “Hubs” created by Microsoft. For example, the “People” and “Photo” “Hubs” can both serve as the newsfeed and photo feed/uploading to facebook. Though, facebook is the only application that Microsoft demoed, plenty of web services could make use of Microsoft’s “Hubs”. The Palm Pre also does both, but not in such a neat fashion.

Moving onto organization, the “Hub” comes into play once more. By creating five “Hubs”, Microsoft has now defined the parameters for developers. When developers do make thousands of apps or do what I mentioned above, they’ll have to be part of “Games aka Xbox”, “Music/Video aka Zune”, “Productivity aka Office”, “People aka Facebook/Windows Live”, or “Photos aka Flickr/Facebook/Windows Live Photo Gallery”. It’s remarkable at how organization will fall into one of these five items, and how much time it can save the user at the end. Speaking of time, how about all those taps on the iPhone that I really hate doing. Windows Phone 7 Series seems to have a solution.

The best example of this was when Joe Belfiore was hungry and wanted Sushi. He’s in Barcelona, and has no idea where to get Sushi, so he presses the dedicated Search button on the bottom of the phone. Here pops up Bing, and he searches “Sushi”. Instead of searching the web or images, Bing brought up Local first and shows and lists a map of local Sushi joints in Barcelona. So now he chooses a place and decides to get info on it. Not only does it bring up location, phone number and the usual stuff that even Google Maps brings up on the iPhone, it also connects with Yelp and brings in review. Instead of having a map app, a yelp app, and who knows what else like on the iPhone, one simple Bing search gets it done. Similarly in the Zune/Music App, Pandora is integrated into the experience, so I don’t need a Pandora App, and an iPod app. It’s all neatly packaged for me.

Now I’m sure one could argue, and mention that if I did a search on Safari for Sushi, it too would find me everything I needed and give me reviews, thus I wouldn’t have to go to a ton of apps to get all the information I needed. You’re right… it probably does all that. If our future is truly be more dependent on the internet, then we must look at the big picture. Microsoft’s got Bing and Google’s Android OS has Google. Apple’s got no one and thus falls at the mercy of either Microsoft or Google to make the powerful applications that will aggregate the information we want. If Apple wants Google Maps on the iPhone to show Yelp results tomorrow, so it can match Microsoft’s OS, the change will be difficult as Apple isn’t in complete control of Google Maps (unless there’s some back deal going on that I’m missing). I’m not sure they do, but I think Steve Jobs saw the exact same problem that I do now. Google controls too much of the iPhone, and if we become more dependent on Safari and the Internet, Apple is in jeopardy, because Google will own the iPhone experience.

Neither Microsoft nor Google have to worry of this, as they have their own robust internet services. At the end of it, Microsoft’s smart methods of allowing developers to integrate with the “Hubs”, and organizing the OS into five “Hubs” will give users a pleasant experience. I’m praying that Jobs unveils iPhone OS 4.0, and proves that the iPhone is and will continue to be the dominant mobile OS, or the inevitable just might happen.

With this change my blogging pattern was affected, and I was not able to blog as much, thereby missing out on archiving important links and showing my opinion on various issues. Today, I felt would be a perfect time to come back, seeing as the Senate has passed their version of the Health Care Plan. I would just like to chime in, and say I’m very happy that both the House and the Senate were able to pass their respective bills, thereby allowing us to move towards bringing true reform to the current system. The passing of both bills, finally allows for debate, and could also accomplish Obama’s largest domestic priority. Very exciting. I hope this happens.

In case there are people out there who don’t want to read the 2074 page document (not that I read it), and would like a quick comparison of the two bills being proposed by the House and the Senate, the NY Times has got a fantastic comparison of the two.

Comparison of the House and Senate Health Care Bill

Another hot item that occurred in the past week, which I found exciting was Google’s release and announcement of ChromeOS. Taking there own view on what an OS should be like, the ambitious company revealed their version of the free, open source OS. I have gone ahead and downloaded it, and run it virtually on my Macbook Pro, and it’s decent. The build available online is unfortunately dated and does not provide the same functionality and stability that Google demoed. I’m hoping for this to improve over time, and can’t see myself using this over Mac OS 10.6 or Windows 7.

and as I typed out Google, one last thing hit my head. Internet Explorer 9. Microsoft unveiled some bits and pieces of IE9, and I am VERY excited if everything they set out with is accomplished. I don’t seem them underwhelming. Steven Sinofsky is running the team, and he’s a boss. If you don’t think so, see what he did with Windows 7. Taking a mess of a project (Windows Vista) and making it into Windows 7 takes some skill, which Sinofsky embodies.

More on IE9 here:

IE9 Details

If you read the article, the best tidbit hands-down has to be “if snooping around source code is your sort of thing, there are supposedly some little nuggets of info there.” I like snooping around in the source code, and I couldn’t really find much aside from the picture. The picture can be found at this link: http://www.opera.com/bitmaps/next/puzzle.jpg

There’s not much going on, but if you look at the picture, and see the edge of that phone, in my eyes (I have a 20/20 vision) that looks like the edge of an iPhone with the metal finish. Does this mean that Opera might be headed to the iPhone? Maybe. Apple’s been under some pressure lately from all sorts of Government agencies, which might have made Apple change their opinion on letting other browsers into the App Store.

If anyone has any opinions to share, I would be greatly interested.

WSJ: Apple Changes Leopard’s Spots

NY Times: Apple’s Sleek Upgrade

Speed Tests: Gauging Snow Leopard’s speed boosts

Mac OS X Upgrade for $9.95: Mac OS X Snow Leopard Up-to-Date Program

“Apple already had the best computer operating system in Leopard, and Snow Leopard makes it a little better.” That sums it up for me.

Edward Kennedy, Senate Stalwart, Dies

“He led the Congressional effort to impose sanctions on South Africa over apartheid, pushed for peace in Northern Ireland, won a ban on arms sales to the dictatorship in Chile and denounced the Vietnam War. In 2002, he voted against authorizing the Iraq war; later, he called that opposition “the best vote I’ve made in my 44 years in the United States Senate.” I’d say that’s a lot of accomplishments. Nonetheless, it’s time to see how we move on from his death, and achieve healthcare, which was Ted Kennedy’s goal as Senator.

Apple to Ship Mac OS X Snow Leopard on August 28

“Apple® today announced that Mac OS® X v10.6 Snow Leopard™ will go on sale Friday, August 28″. This is clearly a couple days old now, and I didn’t get around to talking about it one here. However, I am once more very excited to see how this operating system turns out from Apple, seeing as it isn’t about features, but cleaning up some of the internal messes.

Snow Leopard warning: Your apps may crash

“Most of the major productivity apps — Microsoft Office 2008, Adobe CS4 Suite and QuarkXPress — are OK. But there are some big exceptions, including Adobe Photoshop Elements and Google Gears, a Web browser extension that allows offline access to a number of popular online applications.” It’s always safe to not upgrade over to the newest operating system immediately, and wait for some reviews and press, to see if everything is fine. However, if you can’t resist the urge, do make sure the Applications you use most work fine.